India Untouched: Darker side of India: 3 [HQ]

NOTE: FOR ALL THOSE WHO DENY THE EXISTENCE OF UNTOUCHABLITY IN INDIA

INDIA UNTOUCHED will make it impossible for anyone in India to deny that Untouchability is still practiced today. Director Stalin K. and his team spent four years traveling the length and breadth of India to bear witness to the continued exclusion and segregation of those considered as 'Untouchables' .

The film introduces leading Benares scholars who interpret Hindu scriptures to mean that Dalits 'have no right' to education, and Rajput farmers who proudly proclaim that the police must seek their permission before pursuing cases of atrocities on Dalits. The film captures many 'firsts-on-film, ' such as Dalits being forced to dismount from their cycles and remove their shoes when in the upper caste part of the village.

It exposes the continuation of caste practices and Untouchability in Sikhism, Christianity and Islam, amongst the Communists in Kerala and within some of India's most revered academic and professional institutions.

In an age where the media projects only one image of a 'rising' or 'poised' India, this film reminds us how far the country is from being an equal society. Traveling through eight states and four religions, this film is perhaps the deepest exploration of caste oppression ever undertaken on film.

Stalin K is a human rights activist and award-winning documentary filmmaker. He is the Co-Founder of DRISHTI- Media, Arts and Human Rights, Convener of the Community Radio Forum-India, and the India Director of Video Volunteers. He is a renowned public speaker and has lectured or taught at over 20 institutions ranging from the National Institute of Design and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in India, to New York University and Stanford and Berkeley in the US.

INDIA UNTOUCHED is Stalin's second film on the issue of caste -- his earlier film 'Lesser Humans', on manual scavenging, won the Silver Conch at the Mumbai International Film Festival and the Excellence Award at Earth Vision Film Festival, Tokyo, and helped to bring international attention to the issue of caste.

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[tijgertjem]

Every religion has its own problem. It's people sensitivity that pass judgement.. Doesn't matter if you're HIndu, muslim, christian, jew.. every religion has some sort of opression. Those who deny it, deny the very problems they see in this world today

[FareezLovesMe]

Yes, there are no castes in Islam. The Prophet Muhammad clearly said that an Arab is not superior than a non-Arab and no white is better than a black. It is sad that the caste disease of Hinduism is affecting all the other communities. This means that Hinduism feeds the baser human desires of superiority while Islam teaches humanity to overcome it. Unfortunately, some Muslims in India are failing to follow Islam.

[safyanshah]

And, maybe, coincidently, I am a Pathan as well. It's not a caste. Pathan or Pushtuns, speak Pashto Language. You can't make castes on the basis of one language. No one will ever consider themselves belonging to a higher caste ever in Islam. It left me frozen when I heard him saying that some castes in Islam won't let them sit with them. It's their own made system and not by Religion at all, by any means.

Instead of quoting them, study the Quran and no one will ever find anything about Caste.

[safyanshah]

Great documentary but I disagree with the so called "Muslims" in this part of the video. There is no such thing as CASTE in Islam. I myself am a Muslim. I don't really understand as to what kind of belief system these Muslims are having. Nowhere does the Quran say that there were castes amongst you. You quoted a verse from the Quran that clearly mentions "Be Not Divided", it clearly means, the Religion doesn't ask you to divide unlike Hinduism.